All Things Considered is a comprehensive source for afternoon news and information provided by various MPR hosts in St. Paul and NPR hosts in Washington over the decades. The program contains interviews, reports, speeches and breaking coverage.
April 1, 2003 - All Things Considered’s Lorna Benson interviews local peace activist Steve Clemens about of efforts of the Chicago-based group Voices in the Wilderness while in Iraq. Clemens was there during December 2002 and says about a dozen of the group's members remain in the country. He says all of the peace workers in Baghdad are doing important work.
April 2, 2003 - MPR’s Dan Olson profiles Vern Sutton, a living Minnesota opera legend, who is retiring. Sutton is ending 36 years as a faculty member at the University of Minnesota School of Music. However, Sutton is not leaving the stage. As he explained to Olson, Sutton loves to perform.
April 2, 2003 - All Things Considered’s Lorna Benson speaks with Richfield resident Kenny Hanson, who was held in a POW camp in 1953, during the Korean War. Henson recounts the experience and comments on the Jessica Lynch, the first rescued American POW from the war in Iraq.
April 3, 2003 - All Things Considered’s Lorna Benson talks with folk musician John McCutcheon about his music career, travels, and musical education. McCutcheon says he first considered becoming a professional musician on a trip he took to Appalachia, while he was a student at St. John's University in Collegeville.
April 7, 2003 - MPR’s Lorna Benson talks with Robert Palmquist, president of SpeechGear, about Interact, a handheld translation device created by the company. The device offers real-time oral translations in about 12 different languages. U.S. office of Naval Research is testing device, which will allow troops to communicate better with civilians and surrendering POWs on the battlefield.
April 8, 2003 - Mainstreet Radio's Erin Galbally profiles Somali singer Hibo Mohamed Nuur. The Somali superstar is unrecognized by most people in her new home in Rochester. For decades, Nuur's legendary voice drew thousands to concerts from Mogadishu to Toronto. Fans still call her the “James Brown” of Somali music. Nuur is hopeful she'll sing again in Somalia.
April 8, 2003 - All Things Considered’s Lorna Benson talks with Professor Ronald Glossop, vice-president of the National World Federalist Association, about establishing a democratic world federation that would function much like the United States, but on a global level.
April 10, 2003 - All Things Considered’s Lorna Benson interviews Peter Thompson about his views on the Iraq War. He spent three weeks in Iraq during December 2002 as part of a delegation from Chicago-based Voices in the Wilderness.
April 14, 2003 - All Things Considered’s Lorna Benson interviews Bob Gehrz, an astrophysicist and a professor of astronomy at the University of Minnesota about NASA plans to launch the Space Infrared Telescope on April 27th, 2003. A goal of mission is to have telescope orbit the sun for seven years and capture different kinds of light in space.
April 21, 2003 - MPR’s Bob Kelleher reports on efforts by Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa officials to relocate the remains of Ojibwe, whose graves were uprooted and moved more than one hundred years ago from a cemetery on Wisconsin Point, which lies along the shores of Lake Superior. The remains were reburied in a mass grave in Superior, Wisconsin.